Because being Jewish, while offering a great deal of privilege if you're white/passing, is still a marginalized identity? 

https://twitter.com/aurabogado/status/844390722597924864 …
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some jews are/ pass for white &have assimilated well into properly white america-- that doesn't make all jews white/or passing
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I'm not talking about every Jewish person. I'm talking about Jordana and her "literally" (her words) white family.
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i am not trying to be jerk, but jews have a complicated relationship to whiteness that makes it logical to me a "white"
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You're totally not being a jerk btw I'm happy we're in conversation rn
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It's kinda like when someone says they're Irish or Slavic or Italian or Greek. We may sometimes be considered white, but (cont.)
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we don't get to define whiteness or decide when we get included in it.
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jew would be like, hey i am a Jew! i am different from other parts of white american in this way.
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That just doesn't make sense to me in the context of this article, which is about interracial couples
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ngl, i am also a little confused why it's randomly just this jewish person, but i can understand why this person & author would
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Jordana said that in the context of her family trying to not be racist towards her black boyfriend.
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this isn't to say there aren't very real problems w/in the community with racism, bc there TOTALLY is.
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